| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 282 pages) |
| Contents |
Why this book? : autobiographical reflections -- Faith, revelation, and reason -- Jewish Biblical fundamentalism -- Christian Biblical fundamentalism -- Muslim Koranic fundamentalism -- Acquiring and protecting unreasonable beliefs -- On "defundamentalizing fundamentalists |
| Summary |
Modern scholarship in several disciplines makes it clear that the Bible and the Quran were authored by humans. Nevertheless fundamentalists persist in believing in the divine authorship of their sacred scriptures. In this book, Solomon Schimmel seeks to understand why these people insist on such beliefs and how they defend them |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Religious fundamentalism -- Psychology
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Psychology, Religious.
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Faith and reason.
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psychology of religion.
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Faith and reason
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Psychology, Religious
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Electronic book
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